Huellas errantes

Rumor, verdad e historia desde una crítica poscolonial de la razón

Abstract

In this article the author deals with the main interplays between history and rumor as discourses. First, the article discusses issues related to the concept of truth and evidence in the production of historical discourse, and how rumor (among other discursive patterns) was bypassed in a repressive way into poetic rules. It deals with the displacement produced in the conceptions of truth and discourse from European poststructuralism and mainly with the emergence of postcolonial studies as a political agenda. In the second section the author discusses the transgressions that rumor represents facing the authority of the historical text: certainty and probability were the salient supports of Western Modernity to produce a disciplinary discourse. How was the process in which history-as-discourse left behind traces, vestiges, fragments, all of which, as rumor, implies disagreement and as such becomes political?